Tags: Ethnic Group.
Japanese Peruvians (Spanish: Peruano-Japonés or Nipo-peruano Japanese: 日系ペルー人 Nikkei Perūjin) are people of Japanese ancestry who were born in or immigrated to Peru. The immigrants from Japan are called the issei generation. Second and third generation Peruvians are referred to as nisei and sansei in Japanese. The yonsei are the fourth generation after the issei.Japanese Peruvians comprise the second largest ethnic Japanese population in Latin America after Brazil (1.5 million).
